by Nancy Wigal | Nov 6, 2012 | Rant, SEO |
Those of you who know me pretty well for Search Engine Academy know that I am a sailor and that I try to get out on my boat as much as possible. Apparently I have too much time on my hands, because I recently wondered what, if any, comparisons I could draw between SEO... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 31, 2012 | SEO |
Good day, SEO professionals! I’m writing this smack in the middle of Hurricane Sandy, which does not affect me until I lose power! Once I do, I am lights out for at least several days. However, Search Engine Academy in the rest of the world will still be... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 26, 2012 | Content Marketing, News, SEO, SEO Blogging, WordPress |
Howdy ho, my SEO friends! Have you heard of Google Authorship? No? Well, sit down and follow along with Search Engine Academy and learn how to harness this powerful SEO process that’s under-utilized and poorly understood. This is so cool and powerful, it’s... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 24, 2012 | SEO |
Hello my fellow SEO professionals! How’s it going today for ya? Well, I hope. Thanks for joining Search Engine Academy in another post about Information Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). We’re talking about controlled vocabularies for... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 17, 2012 | SEO |
Hello, hello, to all of you are into SEO! Stick with Search Engine Academy’s ongoing series of Information Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO) to learn how you can make websites even more kick-butt because not only have you optimized the... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 10, 2012 | SEO |
Good day all you SEOers! I’m glad you’re back to read another post about Information Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). We are getting deep into meta data, and specifically we are talking about developing thesauri to build a good list... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 8, 2012 | Rant, SEO |
This question is still being asked today. I constantly run across folks who ask me “why does it matter if I do SEO or not?” It’s obvious, but what the heck, let’s go over some of the reasons why search engine optimization (SEO) matters. First,... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 5, 2012 | Rant, SEO |
Welcome! Search Engine Academy offers you SEO information, perspectives and on occasion, rants about search engine optimization (SEO). Despite the fact that the internet has been around since the early 1990’s and SEO was thought of and implemented right then as... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 3, 2012 | SEO |
Happy Wednesday, fellow SEOers! Let’s keep rockin’ Information Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). We are all over methodical SEO processes and practices here at Search Engine Academy, so IA is a natural fit for us to introduce you to.... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 1, 2012 | Events, Google Webmaster Tools, News, SEO |
Late Friday September 28, Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted that “low quality” Exact Match Domains (EMD) are being dropped from search engine results pages (SERPs). What you may not know is that the Google Penguin update included EMDs. The theory goes that... by Nancy Wigal | Oct 1, 2012 | Insights for Search, News, SEO |
Notice anything different in the last few days about Google Insight for Search? Yep, it’s changed – it was merged with Google Trends. Here at Search Engine Academy, we like to use Google Insight For Search when teaching keyword research, so this is going... by Nancy Wigal | Sep 26, 2012 | SEO |
Howdy ho, my SEO friends! I’ve had the most interesting day, as Eleanor Roosevelt used to put it. Most of us here at Search Engine Academy don’t push the envelope and do things that are over adventurous. Me, I went out to help a friend move his donkeys... by Nancy Wigal | Sep 19, 2012 | SEO |
Good day to all you SEO heroes out there! Hey, I missed posting last week – my bad – but it was totally worth it, because I was in the homestretch of overhauling the entire 5-day SEO training and certification course. Just a quick shameless plug for it... by Nancy Wigal | Sep 5, 2012 | SEO |
Good day to you, fellow SEOers! Search Engine Academy continues to bring you Information Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO) for better website content organization, navigation and search functionality. In the past, I’ve shown you how to set... by Nancy Wigal | Aug 29, 2012 | SEO |
Welcome back to another Wednesday edition of Information Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO from Search Engine Academy. I have a soft spot in my heart for IA, and I do SEO, and the fact that they go together like eggs and bacon is pretty cool with... by Nancy Wigal | Aug 28, 2012 | Link Building, News, SEO |
So here at Search Engine Academy, we teach you how to create and implement your link building strategy that not only helps your Google page ranking, but also nets you high quality links. Alas, a problem that’s as old as the internet – those who sell and/or... by Nancy Wigal | Aug 22, 2012 | SEO |
Howdy ho, SEOers! I hope your August is going well for you. Search Engine Academy has another post here about Information Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). We are going over the site search function, and we are talking about designing the best... by Nancy Wigal | Aug 20, 2012 | News, SEO |
At Search Engine Academy, one of the many things we do is stay on top of Google algorithm and ranking signal changes. Well, now it looks like Google should be coming out very soon with another Penguin update. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s spam fighting team... by Nancy Wigal | Aug 15, 2012 | SEO |
Hola, my SEO friends! It’s been two weeks since I posted anything about Information Architecture (IA) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Search Engine Academy. Hell, it’s August. It’s vacay time for some folks. Well, let me get back on track... by Nancy Wigal | Aug 1, 2012 | SEO |
Hello, all you rock star SEOers out there! Happy Olympics watching to you! All of us here at Search Engine Academy are rooting for our favorite sports and home country. Well, let’s take a little bit of time and talk even more about Infrastructure Architecture... by Nancy Wigal | Jul 30, 2012 | SEO |
Good day! It’s that time again – the summer Olympic games. Here at Search Engine Academy, we are all over the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. We’re online looking for fast results to see how our countries are faring. Every time we have an Olympiad... by Nancy Wigal | Jul 25, 2012 | SEO |
Welcome back to Search Engine Academy’s blog posts on Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). While most people know and understand a little bit about SEO, many others have never heard of IA, and don’t know how the two... by Nancy Wigal | Jul 18, 2012 | SEO |
Good day, all you SEOers out there! I’m glad you’re back, reading Search Engine Academy’s continuing series on Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). The two go together quite well, because IA and SEO are about finding... by Nancy Wigal | Jul 11, 2012 | SEO |
Good day, SEOers! Search Engine Academy is back with another Wednesday posting about Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). I skipped last week due to it being July 4th. Here in the nation’s capital, Washington DC, it’s... by Nancy Wigal | Jul 10, 2012 | Mobile Marketing, Rant |
Mobile SEO can be a lifesaver, no joke. If you pay attention to the news, you may have heard that a significant part of the U.S. was hit hard by a “derecho” storm system on Friday, June 29. We were hit with hurricane force winds (82 – 90 MPH), rain,... by Nancy Wigal | Jul 3, 2012 | Meta Tags, Rant, SEO |
Hello fellow my fellow SEOers and small business owners! I have an SEO rant that I want to unload on you today – what I want to talk about is small business owners and search engine optimization – specifically for small business owners I want to talk about... by Nancy Wigal | Jun 27, 2012 | SEO |
Welcome to Search Engine Academy’s information series on Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). We’re talking about the fourth major system in IA, which is the search function system. If you like, get up to speed on previous... by Nancy Wigal | Jun 20, 2012 | SEO |
Good day to all SEOers out there! We’re doing a Wednesday blog post on Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO) every week to bring you helpful information and tips on how you can incorporate IA and SEO together to make the best web... by Nancy Wigal | Jun 13, 2012 | SEO |
Welcome to Search Engine Academy’s ongoing series about how Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO) integrate to make your website content easier to find from a user’s point of view and in search engine results pages (SERPs).... by Nancy Wigal | Jun 6, 2012 | SEO |
Hello, and welcome to Infrastructure Architecture Wednesday. I missed posting last week due to being overcome by events, or OBE as I call it. Every Wednesday, I give you some information about Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and how it relates to search engine... by Nancy Wigal | May 29, 2012 | Events, Meta Tags, SEO |
Join Search Engine Academy’s Nancy Wigal on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 and learn how doing some on-page SEO work – specifically meta data clean-up – may help your pages in search engine results. This is a part of search engine optimization that’s... by Nancy Wigal | May 23, 2012 | SEO |
Hello all SEOers and welcome back to our continuing series on Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). Search Engine Academy posts articles every Wednesday that show you how IA and SEO go together to improve your existing website or start... by Nancy Wigal | May 16, 2012 | SEO |
Hello SEO and Infrastructure Architecture (IA) specialists – it’s Wednesday, so it’s time for another Search Engine Academy post about IA and SEO. We’re still covering one of the major IA systems – navigation. You can read the first IA... by Nancy Wigal | May 9, 2012 | SEO |
Welcome again to Search Engine Academy’s posts on Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and SEO. We’re getting into IA navigation. We previously talked about content organization and labeling systems in IA. If you’re not familiar with IA, go over those... by Nancy Wigal | May 2, 2012 | SEO |
Good day out there! Search Engine Academy understands the value of Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO), and how they go together. So every Wednesday, we post an article about IA and SEO. In past posts, we’ve talked about what IA... by Nancy Wigal | Apr 27, 2012 | SEO |
Good day, fellow SEO comrades! Welcome back to another blog post from Search Engine Academy. Why don’t we go over something that’s not well known, but is critical in SEO – personalization of search. What exactly is “personalization of... by Nancy Wigal | Apr 25, 2012 | SEO |
Hello all my fellow SEO/IA friends! Welcome back to Infrastructure Architecture Wednesday! This is a series of posts that shows you a little bit of how to integrate Infrastructure Architecture (IA) with search engine optimization (SEO). At long last, we are going to... by Nancy Wigal | Apr 18, 2012 | SEO |
Hello to all of you who combine SEO with infrastructure architecture (IA). It’s IA Wednesday again, and we continue to look at how our labeling systems can be developed from incorporating SEO into our web pages. If you’re just joining us, you may want to... by Nancy Wigal | Apr 11, 2012 | SEO |
Welcome back to another blog post on infrastructure architecture through Search Engine Academy. Every Wednesday we publish a new blog post about some aspect of infrastructure architecture and how it relates to search engine optimization (SEO). Let’s continue... by Nancy Wigal | Apr 4, 2012 | SEO |
Welcome back to Search Engine Academy’s regular Wednesday posting on Infrastructure Architecture (IA) and search engine optimization (SEO). If you’re not sure what IA is, read up on it in previous posts. If you’d like to read them first,...